Tang Hao's Killing Intent

"Fuck!"

Lin Chen was so startled by the sudden turn of events that he blurted out a curse. His figure flashed, and in an instant, he had retreated to the classroom door.

He hurriedly lowered his head to inspect himself.

Fortunately.

His reactions and speed had been fast enough. Not a trace of blood had gotten on him.

"Teacher!"

Tang San was horrified. In a few quick strides, he rushed to the podium and caught the swaying Yu Xiaogang in his arms.

"Teacher, are you all right?"

Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang simply tilted his head and started playing dead.

He did not dare look at the others' reactions, nor did he dare continue confronting Lin Chen. Right now, he only wanted to escape this damned place as soon as possible.

"Teacher, don't scare me, Teacher!"

Tang San kept slapping Yu Xiaogang's old face, occasionally pinching the spot beneath his nose.

Lin Chen dug at his ear and said, "Stop howling. You can't wake someone who's faking a faint."

Tang San abruptly turned his head.

"Lin Chen, do you even have any humanity? Teacher fainted because you angered him, and you're still here making sarcastic remarks. Are you even human?"

At those words, Lin Chen's eyes darkened slightly.

He moved his feet, crossing several meters in an instant.

Slap!

A crisp slap rang through the classroom. Before Tang San could even react, he had already been sent sprawling to the floor.

With Tang San no longer supporting him, Yu Xiaogang's body fell straight toward the ground. However, his body instinctively tensed.

Then, a strange sight appeared.

Yu Xiaogang had clearly "fainted," yet once his body left Tang San's support, he somehow remained standing perfectly upright.

"Pfft... Hahaha..."

Someone could not hold it in and burst out laughing, causing all the students in the classroom to lose their composure as well.

"Hahaha..."

The waves of laughter made it impossible for Yu Xiaogang to keep pretending.

He opened his eyes, his old face bright red.

"Kid, just you wait!"

Yu Xiaogang pointed at Lin Chen and spat out a threat before fleeing the classroom as if running for his life.

As for Tang San...

It was not until Yu Xiaogang had fled the classroom that he finally recovered from that slap.

How could his speed possibly be that fast?

Tang San stared at Lin Chen in shock, utterly unable to understand it.

Although his rank was lower than Lin Chen's, he had cultivated all kinds of Tang Sect secret arts since childhood. His reactions and speed should have been far beyond Lin Chen's.

Yet he had not reacted to that slap at all.

Was that reasonable?

After Yu Xiaogang ran off, Lin Chen turned to look at Tang San, who was lying on the ground questioning his life.

"Though we came from the same village, you'd better keep your mouth clean when you speak to me. If you dare keep saying 'fuck' this and 'fuck' that, be careful I don't cut out your tongue."

Having regained his senses, Tang San rose from the floor with a grim expression.

"I'll be waiting for you behind the mountain."

He did not believe that, with so many Tang Sect secret arts at his disposal, he could not defeat Lin Chen.

He was a prodigy of the Tang Sect.

How could he possibly lose to an orphan like Lin Chen, who had no father or mother?

He must have been careless just now.

They had to fight again. He had to beat Lin Chen until he was crawling around looking for his teeth.

With that, he walked straight out of the classroom.

Lin Chen did not stop him and watched him leave with a smile.

"Lin Chen, let me handle him?"

Xiao Wu came up to Lin Chen, looking eager to give it a try.

"Lin Chen, can we come watch?"

The other students also looked toward Lin Chen. They wanted to see just how strong Lin Chen, who had reached Rank 14 at the age of six, really was.

Lin Chen nodded. "You can watch, but afterward, you have to help me do something."

Someone asked, "What is it?"

Lin Chen said, "Jointly demand that the academy replace our class's teacher."

Just looking at Gangzi's face made him sick.

Being disgusted once today was enough. He did not want to feel nauseated every day.

That kind of trash should just stay curled up in his dormitory, admiring himself.

Why come out and disgust people?

"Hahaha... Don't worry. Even if you hadn't said so, we would have done it anyway. We paid to come here, not to listen to some fame-chasing trash like that teach us."

Someone laughed mockingly.

"Fine, let's go."

Lin Chen did not waste any more words and immediately led everyone toward the back mountain.

On the rooftop of the teaching building.

Tang Hao stood at the edge of the rooftop, gazing thoughtfully down at Lin Chen, who was surrounded by the others like stars around the moon.

Lin Chen had been born just as Tang Hao arrived in Holy Spirit Village, and he had also met the boy's parents.

He could be certain that Lin Chen was a genuine native of Holy Spirit Village, a true orphan who had lost both parents at a young age.

In just three months, he had managed to provoke Yu Xiaogang into coughing blood.

Was that reasonable?

Although Yu Xiaogang's theories were indeed full of holes, everyone who knew the truth was a notable figure in the Spirit Master world.

How did a commoner orphan who was barely out of diapers know about them?

Most importantly, according to his senses, that brat's soul power rank was already extremely close to that of a Great Soul Master.

How was that possible?

No matter how talented someone was, they could not possibly cultivate nearly ten ranks of soul power in three months.

Where there was something abnormal, there had to be something suspicious.

That brat definitely had a secret, and it was an extraordinary one.

If he could obtain the secret behind Lin Chen's rapid soul power growth, would avenging Ah Yin still be difficult?

However... Tang Hao hesitated.

He was considering whether he should seize Lin Chen directly and torture the truth out of him, or use gentler means and take both the secret and the boy for himself.

A six-year-old genius at Rank 18 or 19 was unheard of in the entire history of Spirit Masters. Killing him like this would be rather wasteful.

If he could take him in as a dog, he would surely gain a top-tier helper in the future.

Let's see whether he knows what's good for him.

After pondering for a moment, Tang Hao made his decision. He would first see whether Lin Chen knew what was good for him.

If the boy was sensible and willingly offered up his secret, he could gain a Titled-level master and an absolutely safe environment in which to grow.

But if he was not sensible...

Hehe!

Then he could not blame Tang Hao for being ruthless and snuffing out this top-tier genius in advance.

Tang Hao smiled faintly and turned to head downstairs.

But the instant he turned around, his body froze in place.

"Who are you?"

Tang Hao narrowed his eyes and warily stared at the middle-aged man who had somehow appeared behind him, expressionlessly watching him.

He felt an incomparable threat from the other man.

Even when he had only been a Soul Douluo and faced Qian Xunji, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and the others, he had never felt such terrifying pressure.

His instincts told him that the other man was extraordinarily powerful.

The fact that he could appear silently behind him without Tang Hao noticing was proof enough.

Where had this man come from, and why had Tang Hao never heard of such a person?

"Sever one of your arms, and I'll spare your life."

Wuhen's tone was indifferent, and not a trace of emotion showed on his face.